Reuben Feinman is a research scientist with 11 years of AI experience spanning industry and academia, currently at Google DeepMind after leading deep learning efforts at Common Sense Machines. He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from NYU (Google PhD Fellow) and has collaborated with leaders like Yann LeCun and Ruslan Salakhutdinov on self-supervised vision and malware-detection research. Reuben builds large-scale foundation models and ML infrastructure, applying transformers, diffusion models, deep RL and neuro-symbolic methods to 3D generative AI and interactive design. His work is cited 1,000+ times across premier ML venues, and he’s contributed practical adversarial-attack tooling to the popular CleverHans library, including a novel saliency-map method and tutorial. Based in Cambridge, MA, he blends rigorous probabilistic and information-theoretic foundations with production-grade systems engineering to translate cutting-edge research into deployed capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neural Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neural Science at New York University
Bachelor of Science (Sc.B.) with Honors Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (Sc.B.) with Honors Applied Mathematics at Brown University
An adversarial example library for constructing attacks, building defenses, and benchmarking both
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Reuben primarily contributed to the implementation of the Saliency Map method within the CleverHans library, introducing a new adversarial example generation technique. They added the necessary code for the saliency map method, including its core algorithm, and also provided a tutorial script for demonstrating its usage. Furthermore, the user refactored code, updated documentation, and fixed issues related to Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM), demonstrating a focus on improving the library's functionality and usability for the generation and evaluation of adversarial examples.
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Reuben Feinman - Research Scientist at Google DeepMind